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"The Showdown That Wasnt: U.S.-Israeli Relations and American Domestic Politics, 197375"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 4, volume 39
To what extent do domestic politics influence the United States policy toward Israel? Documentary evidence demonstrates that although President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger initially sought a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace agreement, domestic considerations played a key role in their decision to return to the step-by-step diplomacy favored by Israels supporters in the United States.
April 29, 2015
"Grasp This Window to Hold Killers Accountable"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
"What happens when chronic violence and brutal aggression go unchecked for decades on end? We see an example of this in the release this week of the findings of a United Nations internal investigation of events during last summers war in Gaza. The report included the conclusion that Israeli attacks then killed 44 Palestinian civilians who had sheltered in seven United Nations schools. It also concluded that no weapons had been found inside those facilities, but rather in three other vacant UN-run schools that Hamas used to store arms, and from where it probably fired rockets at Israel."
April 28, 2015
"Why an Iran Deal Won't Lead to Nuclear Proliferation"
Op-Ed, Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog
By Dina Esfandiary and Ariane Tabatabai, Former Associate, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 20142015; Former Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 20132014
"Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and the UAE are all dependent on foreign suppliers and expertise for their programs. They lack the human capacity for the programs. Foreign involvement makes it difficult, though not impossible, to covertly develop a nuclear weapon. This means that suppliers also need to do their due diligence and ensure that buyers use their equipment for purely peaceful purposes."
April 25, 2015
"A Needed Intellectual Jolt to Israel-Palestine Justice and Peace"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
"What should we make of these developments related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that occurred Thursday? Someone in Gaza fired a projectile at southern Israel and Israels military responded by attacking some Hamas facilities in northern Gaza. This happened on the day when Israel celebrated its national independence day, which Palestinians mark as their catastrophic day of national shattering, subjugation and exile. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Israel said that if Israel were ever in trouble, the United States would fight for it and protect it. In Washington, the House Ways and Means Committee passed a global trade bill but included in it a provision that the U.S. government should work to prevent Europeans from adopting measures to support any trade sanctions or boycotts against Israel because of its illegal exploitation of Palestinian territories. At the Palestinian Birzeit University, Hamas won the student council elections, reversing decades of Fateh control. The UN agency responsible for providing Palestinian refugees with essential needs, UNRWA, noted that eight months after the devastating Israeli destruction of many parts of Gaza, not a single destroyed home has been rebuilt, and 100,000 Palestinian refugees remain homeless."
April 22, 2015
"Why Nuclear Dominoes Won't Fall in the Middle East"
Op-Ed, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
By Dina Esfandiary and Ariane Tabatabai, Former Associate, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 20142015; Former Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 20132014
"On their own, civilian nuclear programs do not necessarily imply a military threat. Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), member countries are allowed to pursue civilian nuclear programs. Because of a growing energy demand, many countries in the Middle East are exploring nuclear power as part of their energy mix. While some, including the United Arab Emirates, have succeeded in starting civilian nuclear power programs, others face serious financing and technical capacity issues."
April 17, 2015
"Hezbollah 'Delivers' Assad: Implications of Iran's Involvement in Syrian Crisis"
Op-Ed, Iran Matters
By Daniel Sobelman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program
Iran's and Hezbollah's involvement in the ongoing conflict in Syria has major potential strategic implications for Israel and the region. He notes that Iranian military and economic aid have been crucial in saving the Syrian regime and argues that this has put Iran in the dominant position to determine Syria's strategic directory for some time to come. He goes on to state that the disintegration of state authority near the Golan Heights and the ongoing fighting there between the regime and its allies and the rebel forces has created the potential for another "border" between Israel and Iran, in addition to the positions held by Hezbollah in South Lebanon, complicating Israel's regional security posture.
April 15, 2015
Secretary Albright on Negotiation: Photo Gallery
The Future of Diplomacy Project proudly hosted former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright at the Spangler Center in April through the American Secretaries of State Project, jointly directed by Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School's Program On Negotiation. Led by Faculty Directors, Professor Nicholas Burns of the Harvard Kennedy School, Professor James Sebenius of the Harvard Business School, and Professor Robert Mnookin from Harvard Law School, the program seeks to interview former Secretaries of State to gain their insights into how modern diplomacy and negotiation can be used effectively in reponse to "intractable" conflicts.
April 14, 2015
"Netanyahu Prepares for a Gunfight"
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"Netanyahu's actions are unprecedented in U.S. history. A foreign leader from a country considered to be a close U.S. ally has placed himself, frontally, between a U.S. president and a major presidential foreign policy initiative. Not diplomatic reservations, along with discrete behind the scenes efforts to improve the agreement. Not a polite request to amend the agreement, but total public opposition, designed to torpedo the agreement, along with unrealistic demands...."
April 8, 2015
Give the Nuclear Framework a Chance
Op-Ed, Just Security
By Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Based on an initial reading, I believe the framework for a nuclear agreement with Iran is worth trying to develop into a concrete deal, as long as the US-led coalition stays tough on terms, and recognizes that there are no verification measures that can guarantee that Iran wont cheat. These negotiations are not about creating a legally binding document that replaces Irans existing obligations under the Non-Proliferation treaty (NPT), which remain binding. Thus, the details of compliance and measures of verification are notable, but they wont prove to be decisive in ultimately assessing the merits of the agreement.
April 11, 2015
"Mission Impossible: Iran Is Too Powerful to Contain"
Op-Ed, The National Interest
By Dina Esfandiary and Ariane Tabatabai, Former Associate, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 20142015; Former Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 20132014
"...U.S. and Iranian strategic interests align on some key issues, including the fight against ISIS and the postcombat mission era in Afghanistan....Today, Tehran is the only actor involved that has enough at stake in Iraq to be willing and able to send in ground troops, should the need arise. In Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia was one of three countries to recognize the Taliban as an official government. But Iran has and continues to want the Taliban out of the picture, as does Washington."


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When Latex Kitty and I became parents almost two years ago, my blogging became more and more sporadic and came to a hold during the fall of 2014. The reason for this was that our little daughter developed an eating disorder and was hardly sleeping, serious issues that we had to get professional help with to solve and that we are still working to resolve on a daily basis. It's been really hard, but things are slowly getting better.
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Teaching Residents to Work with Torture Survivors: Experiences
from the Bronx Human Rights Clinic
Eva E. Metalios, MD1,2,6, Ramin G. Asgary, MD, MPH, MSc1,2,3, Nina Cooperman, PsyD4,
Clyde L. Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H1,2, Evelyn Du, PhD4, Laxmi Modali5,
and Galit Sacajiu, MD, MPH1,2
1Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA;2Department of Social & Community Medicine, Montefiore Medical
Center, Bronx, NY, USA;3Department of Community & Preventative Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA;4Division of
General Internal Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY, USA;5Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI, USA;6Comprehensive Health Care Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
INTRODUCTION: Despite the 1984 United Nations's
Convention Against Torture calling to train doctors to
work with torture survivors, many physicians are
unaware of their obligation and few are taught the
requisite clinical skills.
AIM: To describe the development, implementation, and
evaluation of a curriculum to teach residents to work
with torture survivors.
PARTICIPANTS: Medicine residents in New York City
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: A 2-component curriculum
consisting of a series of workshops and clinical experi-
ences, which provide content, skills, and practices
regarding the medical, psychological, ethical, and legal
aspects of evaluating and caring for torture survivors.
CURRICULUM EVALUATION: All 22 trainees received
surveys before and after training. Surveys assessed
residents' relevant prior experience, beliefs, skills, and
attitudes regarding working with torture survivors. At
baseline, 23% of residents described previous human
rights trainings and 17% had work experiences with
torture survivors. Before the curriculum, 81% of resi-
dents reported doctors should know how to evaluate
survivors, although only 5% routinely screened patients
for torture. After the curriculum, residents reported
significant improvements in 3 educational domains—
general knowledge, sequelae, and self-efficacy to evalu-
ate torture survivors.
DISCUSSION: This curriculum addresses the disparity
between doctors' obligations, and training to work with
torture survivors. It is likely to achieve its educational
KEY WORDS: torture; survivors; doctors; New York City;
resident education.
J Gen Intern Med 23(7):1038–42
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-008-0592-2
© Society of General Internal Medicine 2008
Doctors have a professional obligation to evaluate and treat
torture survivors. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
adopted by the United Nations in 1948, established that
doctors are duty-bound to support human rights and basic
humanitarian laws.1The 1984 United Nations Convention
Against Torture called to educate all doctors to identify and
treat survivors.2These declarations have been ratified by the
United States government and the American College of Physi-
cians, among others. However, few medical schools train their
learners to work with torture survivors.3–5
In the United States, there are over 500,000 foreign-born
torture survivors, and about 20 percent of these live in New
York City's metropolitan area.3Torture, in the human right
context, is defined as acts that cause intense physical or
psychological pain, are volitional, are done to punish or coerce,
and are sanctioned actively or passively by governments or
their agents. Although 5–11% of foreign-born patients at US
urban medical centers are torture survivors, doctors often are
unaware of this medically relevant information.4–7In 2000,
Eisenman found a 7% torture history prevalence among a New
York City public hospital's primary care clinic. None were
identified as survivors by their doctors.
The Bronx Human Rights Clinic (BHRC) was established to
address the disparity between doctors' obligations and aware-
ness of torture. BHRC, located at the Community Healthcare
Center (CHCC) in New York City, is in the clinical home for
Montefiore Medical Center's Primary Care and Social Medicine
(PC/SM) residency programs. The PC/SM programs are
committed to producing, in an environment of academic rigor
and innovation, clinicians and physician-leaders equipped to
improve the health of society, particularly that of underserved
populations. This article is the first to describe the develop-
ment and implementation of a curriculum to teach medical
residents clinical skills to evaluate torture survivors.
The BHRC was established in 1993 as a collaboration between
Montefiore's PC/SM residency programs and the humanitari-
an program Doctors of the World (DOW).8DOW provides
services for communities endangered by violations of human
rights and civil liberties and trains providers to sustain these
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missions. The goal of our curriculum is to prepare residents to
actively contribute to social justice by advocating for torture
survivors. The specific objectives of BHRC are: to train
residents to medically and psychologically evaluate survivors,
write affidavits for asylum proceedings, and link applicants to
medical, mental health, and social services.
The BHRC curriculum has 2 components—a training
curriculum and clinic curriculum. Lacking training models
specific to residents, we used DOW's full-day training program
for new volunteers as a template. We modified its length and
content to be appropriate for residents, and streamlined
DOW's psychiatric and gynecological modules. We distributed
surveys to assess residents' needs and experiences regarding
this curriculum. Using this acquired knowledge, we built an
experiential clinic curriculum.
Training Curriculum
Implemented in 2002, this mandatory required curriculum is a
series of 8 workshops delivered in one 4-hour block, to all
house officers en masse, during Postgraduate year (PGY) 1.
Topics include identifying doctors' ethical obligation to work
with survivors, explaining basic legal aspects of asylum, and
teaching about torture's medical and psychological sequelae.
Workshops include case presentations of applicants seen in
BHRC, didactic and small group discussions led by experts in
law, medicine, and mental health (Table 1). Training materials
include DOW's training manual, sample affidavits, and a court
preparation guide (available upon request).
Clinic Curriculum
Residents start in BHRC as PGY 2s, 1–3 months after they
received the training curriculum. This longitudinal experience
during the second and third years of residency reinforces the
training curriculum, and provides hands-on practice working
with torture survivors.
Residents participate in 1 BHRC session monthly, evaluat-
ing 1 applicant per session, during all of their 9 PGY 2 and 3
residency ambulatory months. Applicants are referred to
BHRC subsequent to intake at DOW. Resident–preceptor pairs
meet during the BHRC session before commencing evaluations
to review applicant packets (including their narrative state-
ment and social-political profiles from Human Rights Watch),
review the training curriculum, and develop specific evaluation
and affidavit-writing strategies regarding assigned clients.
Establishing resident–preceptor pairs before sessions facili-
tates this process. Thereafter, applicants are evaluated.
Evaluations take roughly 3 hours and are conducted in half-
day sessions. As taught in the training curriculum, residents
Table 1. Training Curriculum Workshops
Workshop TitleObjectives Facilitators' Training*Methods
A History of TortureTo define torture and its prevalenceTwo General Internists Interactive
To provide a sociopolitical and historical context
To explain international codes of conduct regarding use and prevention of
To explain basic United States asylum law Asylum LawImmigration lawyer Interactive
To present the challenges facing asylum seekers navigating the United
States' legal system
To describe the 6 most common types physical maltreatment—blunt
trauma, burns, suffocation, sharp objects, electrical torture, genital/
sexual torture
To explain acute and long-term sequelae
Medical Sequelae
A General Internist and A
To describe the psychological impact of tortureClinical psychologist or
To describe the most common diagnoses
To review criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder
To explore the purpose of an evaluation Approach to
General InternistInteractive
To explain how to minimize retraumitization
To review effective use of translators
To describe demographics, types of torture and sequelae of survivors seen in
the clinic
To describe how to write a useful affidavit
Who do we see at
Effective affidavit
General Internist Interactive
Affidavit review
Immigration Lawyer and
General Internist
To explain how to prepare to testify in court
To present residents' perspective of their experienceWhat is it like to
work here?
General Internal Medicine
Chief Resident
To explore secondary trauma and provider self-care
*All facilitators are experienced working with torture survivors
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use a standardized clinical evaluation format derived from the
"Manual of Degrading Treatment or Punishment".9If appli-
cants are not fluent in English, communication is through
translators provided by their lawyers, or via telephone trans-
lation with dual-headset phones.
BHRC has 4 faculty preceptors. Their professional expertise
is global health and human rights. Residents present their
evaluations as case conferences and are precepted together
within a closed conference room. Subsequently, and with the
applicants' permission, resident–preceptor pairs lead small
groups of resident-doctors to see each applicant. These small
groups review and refine evaluations. Resident–preceptor pairs
then directly offer applicants referrals to return for medical
care at CHCC with their evaluating doctor. DOW facilitates
evaluators' referrals for mental health or social services.
Residents are required to write affidavits for all meritorious
applicants. A 4-hour faculty precepted block for writing at
CHCC is scheduled within 1 day of BHRC. Completed affida-
vits are notarized and submitted to court. Residents who are
called to testify in court are further prepared by BHRC faculty.
Residentsweregiven37 itempre-andposttestsurveys.Surveys
were administered anonymously to all resident-trainees who
participated in this curriculum. Surveys assessed residents'
beliefs, skills, and attitudes regarding working with torture
Survey data were encoded and entered into SPSS. Analysis
was performed via paired sample t tests for mean-composite
scores, and Wilcoxon nonparametric signed-rank test for
paired data. Changes in pre and postquestions were analyzed
pairwise, and through mean aggregate scores. Grouping ques-
tions into composite scores was confirmed through Cronbach's
alpha testing. Montefiore Medical Center's Institutional Review
Board approved this study.
All 22 PGY 2 and 3 residents participated in BHRC training
curriculum between 2002 and 2005, and 96% completed
surveys. At baseline, 23% of residents described previous
human rights trainings and 17% had diverse prior work
experiences with torture survivors. Survey results are sum-
marized in Tables 2 and 3.
Despite the fact that doctors have an ethical and professional
obligation to evaluate and treat torture survivors, as far as we
know, Montefiore's PC/SM residency program is the only one
to routinely train all residents to evaluate torture survivors.
We faced several challenges in developing and implementing
the training curriculum. These included the limited number of
appropriate educational models, the logistics of adding anoth-
er curricular piece and affidavit preparation into a busy
clinical residency program, and the emotionally difficult nature
of this work. To address these challenges, we adapted the
DOW's training model to our time constraints by restructuring
it into a 4-hour session. We facilitated timely affidavit submis-
sion by scheduling affidavit-writing time during residents'
work week. In response to the emotional demands of working
with survivors, we established resident–preceptor pairs and a
communal precepting model to provide support and early
identification of secondary trauma.
As we developed, implemented, and evaluated the BHRC
training curriculum, we found that our residents' perceived
baseline torture survivor work skills were limited. Although
some residents had previous human rights training, few had
previous experiences working with torture survivors.
Our study has several limitations. The data were self-
reported from a small number of PC/SM residents who select
our training programs, in part, because of prior interest in
social justice. Thus, they are more likely than other Internal
Medicine residents to have prior human rights experiences, be
aware of professional obligations to work with survivors, and
have attitudes consistent with this mission. Indeed, this
heightened awareness may be why no significant changes
were found in the Attitudes or Codes domain scores. Nonethe-
less, among these highly motivated residents only 5% initially
routinely screened for torture. The residents in our study
showed improvement in knowledge and self -efficacy relevant
to good clinical evaluation of survivors. Only dissemination
and evaluation of this curriculum can assess whether similar
gains are possible in other programs.
Creating and implementing the BHRC curriculum is a first
step in addressing the disparity between doctors' responsibil-
ities toward torture survivors and their clinical training in this
realm. The results presented here suggest that this curriculum
is feasible to teach and is likely to achieve its educational goals.
We believe that our model to teach residents to evaluate
survivors can be adapted by similar training settings where
organized clinical experiences are already available.10–12In
addition, we hope that our experience might inspire other
training programs that serve survivors of torture to create
clinical training experiences by partnering with advocacy
agencies. Further work is presently being done to assess the
impact of the BHRC clinic curriculum on clinical behavior,
including screening for torture survivors in primary care
settings, and resident' ability to work with other traumatized
populations, such as survivors of domestic violence and acts of
Table 2. Resident Baseline Characteristics (n=21)
No. (%)
Within USA
Foreign born
Previous human rights training
If previous human rights training, type of experience
Pre-medical academic study
Medical school curriculum
Training for nonmedical paid work experience
Prior medical volunteer training
More than 1 type of training
Previous experience working with torture survivors
6 (29)
15 (71)
14 (67)
7 (33)
5 (23)
16 (77)
1 (5)
3 (14)
1 (5)
2 (10)
2 (10)
4 (17)
17 (83)
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Table 3. Pre and Post Training Curriculum Survey Items and Educational Domains
Educational DomainsPretest mean composite
scores (SD) or (%) percent
Posttest mean composite
scores (SD) or (%) percent
Professional and ethical codes of conduct regarding torture
survivors (2 items)
1. Identifying and treating torture survivors is the professional
obligation of what type (s) of providers (choose from 6).
2. 4 -part question regarding the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights that was established during the Geneva
Convention of 1948.
General knowledge about torture (10 items)*
1. Which of the following (7) sentences is/are incorrect
statement about torture as it is legally defined.
2. What is the number of independent nations where torture is
systematic or commonplace?
3. Percentage of those tortured among people seeking political
asylum in the United States.
4. Percentage of women who have experienced rape or sexual
violence among women seeking political asylum in the United
5. The prevalence of torture history in randomly selected foreign
born persons seeking medical care in an urban medical center
in NYC.
6. The majority of doctors are aware of a history of torture in
their patients who experienced it. (True/False)
7. Name the populations at risk for current or past experience of
8. Almost all women seeking political asylum in the United
States have a history of rape. (Agree/Disagree)
9. Four statements pertaining to the legal aspects of seeking
refuge in the United States (True/False)
10. What are the maneuvers one should perform when
physically examining an asylum seeker.
Medical and psychological sequelae of torture (4 items)*
1. Examination of the physical sequelae of person who has
experienced the 2 most common types of torture reveal the
following (choose 2 out of 5).
2. The types of psychological syndromes experienced by torture
survivors include (4 choices).
3. Common behavioral responses of torture survivors include (4
4. Symptoms for PTSD are grouped into 3 major symptom
categories which do not include the following (choose 1 out of 4)
Attitudes and perceptions of residents regarding working with
torture survivors (4 items)*
1. I believe doctors should know how to evaluate torture
survivors (Likert scale).
2. I am concerned about being manipulated by clients lying to
seek asylum (Likert scale)
3. I feel comfortable evaluating torture survivors (Likert Scale
4. I am comfortable using the diagnostic criteria for PTSD (Likert
Residents' self efficacy to assess torture survivors (7 items)*
1. I believe that I know how to evaluate torture survivors (Likert
2. I routinely screen for domestic violence trauma in my medical
practice. (Yes/No).
3. I know how to identify the populations at risk for a history of
torture (Likert Scale).
4. I know the common types of physical maltreatment used in
torture (Likert Scale).
5. I understand the psychological effects of torture (Yes/No).
6. I have used the diagnostic criteria for PTSD in the last year to
assess a patient (Yes/No).
7. I routinely screen for a history of torture in my medical
practice. (Likert Scale).
27.4% 51.2% 0.486
19.0%68.6% 0.767
Of the 37 questions, 9 are not included here: 5 are demographic and 4 were not entered into the database as they included a term that became obsolete
during the course of the training.
NA not applicable because of domain construct or too few items in the domain
*Statistically significant difference (p<.05) between the pretest and posttest mean composite scores or the pretest and posttest percent level of agreement
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Acknowledgment: The authors would like to extend our thanks to
Vandana Tripathi, Program Director for Doctors of the World USA,
and Galina Moskaleva, Senior Data Analyst from the Department of
Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, for their
efforts in the development and execution of this manuscript.
I, Eva Metalios, had full access to all of the data in the study and
I take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of
the data analysis.
Conflict of Interest: None disclosed.
Corresponding Author: Eva E. Metalios, MD; Comprehensive
Health Care Center, Montefiore Medical Center, 305 East 161st
Street, Bronx, NY 10451, USA (e-mail: email@example.com).
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Afternoon tea at the Jefferson Hotel is a classy alternative to a bridesmaid getaway in Vegas. Photograph courtesy of the Jefferson.
If you're the type of bride who's more Lady Di than Lady Gaga, a booze-soaked bender in Vegas is probably not your idea of a good time. The Champagne tea at the historic Jefferson Hotel is perhaps a more genteel choice for bachelorette parties and other bridal fêtes, and will spare you and your maids the airfare—and the hangover—required of a weekend in Sin City.
In 2009, the 86-year-old Jefferson Hotel reopened after a two-year overhaul, which revived former spaces and created new ones. The Greenhouse, which plays host to the hotel's traditional afternoon teas, is an example; its elaborate skylight, hidden since World War II, was uncovered during the renovation. Bridal parties of up to eight can be accommodated in the Greenhouse, located just off the hotel's lobby, where they can sip teas from a menu of greens and blacks and nibble on seasonal tea sandwiches (we'd like to try Chef Chris's smoked salmon with lemon aioli or his braised roast beef on rye), an assortment of scones and clotted creams with homemade preserves, and miniature pastries (the Virginia Peanut Praline caught our eye). Traditional tea is $39 per guest; a Champagne tea is available for $55.
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Luis Fariña
Fariña playing for Deportivo La Coruña
|Personal information
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|1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
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|Attacking midfielder
|Club information
Current team
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|Youth career
|Racing Club
|Senior career*
|Racing Club
|→ Baniyas (loan)
|→ Deportivo La Coruña (loan)
|→ Rayo Vallecano (loan)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 October 2015.
Luis Carlos Fariña Olivera (born 20 April 1991) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Spanish club Rayo Vallecano, on loan from Portuguese club Benfica.
Club career[edit]
Born in Buenos Aires, Fariña graduated from Racing Club de Avellaneda's youth system. He made his professional debut on 28 August 2009, replacing Sebastián Grazzini in a 1–1 home draw against Club Atlético Colón for the Argentine Primera División championship.[1]
Fariña appeared sparingly in the following campaigns, mainly used as a backup. He was only utilized regularly in the 2012–13 campaign, after profitting from both Giovanni Moreno and Lucas Castro's departures.
Fariña scored his first professional goals on 19 November 2012, netting a brace in a 4–0 home win against Quilmes Atlético Club.[2] He finished the season with 28 matches and four goals, attracting the interest of S.L. Benfica, S.C. Braga and Sporting CP.[3][4][5]
On 24 July 2013 Fariña signed a five-year deal with the Eagles for €3.5 million, joining fellow Racing teammates José Shaffer and José Luis Fernández.[6][7] On 9 August, however, he was loaned to UAE Arabian Gulf League side Baniyas SC, in a season-long deal.[8]
On 27 July 2014, Fariña moved to Deportivo de La Coruña also in a temporary deal.[9] He made his La Liga debut on 23 August, starting in a 1–2 away loss against Granada CF.[10]
Fariña scored his first goal in the main category of Spanish football on 15 December, netting the winner in a home success over Elche CF.[11] On 13 August 2015 he joined Rayo Vallecano, on loan for one year.[12][13]
Personal life[edit]
Fariña's parents were born in Paraguay, with himself also holding a Paraguayan citizenship since December 2014.[14]
- Racing Club
- Copa Argentina: Runner-up 2011–12[15]
- ^ "Premio a la persistencia" [An award to the persistence] (in Spanish). ESPN Deportes. 28 August 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ "Racing goleó a Quilmes y quedó a tres puntos de la cima" [Racing thrashed Quilmes and remained three points behind the leaders] (in Spanish). ESPN Deportes. 19 November 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ "Benfica don't give up on Fariña". Footy News 24. 25 June 2013.
- ^ "Luis Fariña foi sondado mas sem efeito" [Luis Farina was asked but without effect] (in Portuguese). Record. 11 July 2013.
- ^ "Fariña em entrevista: "Benfica é um sonho e quero aproveitá-lo"" [Fariña in interview: "Benfica is a dream and I want to seize it"] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 16 July 2013.
- ^ "Fariña no Benfica por 3,5 milhões de euros" [Farina in Benfica for 3.5 million euros] (in Portuguese). Sapo Desporto. 16 July 2013.
- ^ "Benfica: sabe quem foram os últimos jogadores contratados ao Racing?" [Benfica:Do you know who were the last players Benfica bought from Racing?] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 16 July 2013.
- ^ "Benfica: Luis Fariña emprestado ao Baniyas FC" [Benfica:Luis Farina loaned to Baniyas FC] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 9 August 2013.
- ^ "Luis Fariña pasará mañana reconocimiento médico" [Luis Fariña will go through medical examinations tomorrow] (in Spanish). Deportivo's official website. 27 July 2014.
- ^ "Granada fight back for win". ESPN FC. 23 August 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ "Depor back to winning ways". ESPN FC. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ "Luis Fariña nuevo jugador del Rayo Vallecano" [Luis Fariña new player of Rayo Vallecano] (in Spanish). Rayo's official website. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- ^ "Fariña emprestado ao Rayo Vallecano" [Luis Fariña loaned to Rayo Vallecano] (in Portuguese). S.L. Benfica. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- ^ "Luis Fariña se nacionalizará paraguayo para jugar en la selección" [Luis Fariña will get a Paraguayan citizenship to play for the national team] (in Spanish). Pasión Libertadores. 3 December 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ Luis Fariña profile at Soccerway. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
External links[edit]
- Luis Fariña profile at ForaDeJogo
- Argentine Primera statistics at Futbol XXI (Spanish)
- ESPN statistics
- Luis Fariña career statistics at Soccerbase
- Luis Fariña profile at Soccerway
- 1991 births
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I do not know if you have any descriptions of targets being used by US forces, but I did come across one for the British. For those interested in live firing here is a
target used by the 85th Regiment in 1812:
"The description of target to be invariably used will be the screen or figure target; to be made of canvass, stretched on a wooden frame. seven feet in height, and three
feet in breadth, supported in the rear by a small prop, similar to a gravel sifter, only perpendicular; a figure will be marked on it, with arms folded across the breast,
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A wooden figure was kept by the Quarter Master to be used to traced from onto the canvas. The ranges practiced were 60, 100, 150 and 200 yards.
I have some accounts of targets being used by the British in the 1830s and 40s were they really got fancy. Hope you find this interesting.
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> US troops were told to "TAKE AIM". In the Northwest, when relieved from guard
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Sad that this facility hasn't been maintained. I remember this 5 star resort back in the day!
Close to the highway.
Reservation turned out not to be a double queen bed. It seems that the hotel will try to charge us for the difference. Not sure if you can do something about it as your booking system assumes all reservations are double.
Nice staff and was the cheapest around
It feels like the cheapest motel around. They also hold a $100 on my card for a week.
The hotel is in need of a major renovation. There were noticeable maintenance issues and the overall condition was lacking even for a budget hotel.
The easy check in and check out and being able to have my pet be with me
Not enough towels, got to hot at night, not enough pillows
Rooms were clean and comfortable. Breakfast was the standard continental breakfast that you find at all the hotels.
Even though there as hardly anyone there because it was Thanksgiving day, the internet was extremely slow.
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We've come to accept that millennials adopt technology at a faster rate than other generations. And we've come to accept that millennial moms are uber-digital -- not only the mommy-bloggers gathering in San Diego this week for the annual BlogHer conference. What we don't often talk about is how that 's going to shape the generation coming up after the millennials -- the iGen. Technology isn't going to skip this generation, it's being handed down right from mother to child.
The chart above is data provided exclusively to AdAgeStat from an annual survey from Parenting Group, the publisher of Parenting, Babytalk and Parenting.com, and the BlogHer network. The generational breakdown is striking. Across the board, younger moms are passing technology along to their kids at an early age. This might not seem too surprising, given the Gen-Y embrace of technology. But when you consider that many of the youngest Gen-X moms are still having their first kids, whereas many millennials are putting off having kids, the adoption rates of technology start to blur.
Digging deeper into the data we see that the percent of moms who haven't let their children use a smartphone corresponds roughly to the percent of moms who don't have a smartphone themselves. We suspect that moms who haven't let their 2-year-olds use a smartphone likely got a smartphone when their kids were already older than that . Crazy, eh? Looking at stats for more-established technologies would seem to confirm that . The Gen-Xers and Boomer moms -- who are more likely to have older kids -- do show a higher overall rate of having passed the laptop or non-smartphone to their children of all ages.
The sweet spots for majority-usage looks like this: Mobile phone, age 11; smartphones, age 16; laptop/PC, age 4; digital camera, age 5.
Overall, the study found that nearly three-quarters of moms with internet access can't go a day without it. One in four report letting their kids use a mobile phone by age 2. We wonder when the ability to hit the home button, swipe to unlock and find an app will become a recognized developmental milestone -- maybe somewhere between walking and multi-word sentences.
Marketers have struggled with reaching the digital millennials and Gen-Xers since the dawning of the internet. The impact of the millennials -- who have grown up in a digital world rather than graduating into it as Gen-Xers generally did -- has perplexed planners. Imagine now the iGen, who have had an iPhone in hand and computer on their laps since they were old enough to sit up -- and have never had to wait for a picture to develop.
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